Reworking old wiring

[macojoe]

I will have to look that up also willy!!

Your doing a good job there inaforty, I hate wires and I am no good at it and know it!!
My boat has more wires going no were and more switches and stuff that do nothing, I don't know were to start??
I bought a BlueSea switch panale last season, after I installed it one of the switches went bad, I called them and they senmt me a new one, but now all the switches are seized?? I will be calling them soon.

Looks like a bowl of pasta was turned over in there! I have my work cut out for me thats for sure, and it all has to get done as I have to install all the new wires for the Yamaha this spring!

Want a job?? LOL Keep up the good work

[inaforty]

Macojoe,
I think your 225 Yammie should be pretty much plug and play if you use the correct year factory harness and gauges/sensors, throttle/binnacle. I rigged and 25hp 4 stroker on my Whaler and it was pretty easy but of course a 25 hp is not a 225 either.. Once the pos and neg were attached the harness did the rest. I'm no expert or Yammie mechanic by any mean but that how it went for me. I also put in a Yamaha fuel management system on the Rosborough. Followed instruction and it was fairly easy.

Trying to find out where everything goes and what is need and not is time consuming but what the heck is there to do right now anyways.

[macojoe]

I not worried about the motor cause at you say its all plug & Play, itys all the other crap I have to clean up!! I have to rip everything out EVERYTHING!!
And rewire all new, radar, GPS, FF, lights, pumps, salt water wash, all the other stuff. Is going to be a pain, But I have BS and CB to help me, I hope?? We are all buying new stuff that we are all going to be hard at work come spring fixing are own stuff!!.

[inaforty]

All new stuff Macojoe!

WOW that sound like fun!

All that other crap....like this.


Here is the wiring all reworked so that everything is easily accessible etc.
I'm no pro installer but I'm much cheaper and when something goes wrong I know where to look. I turn the battery on after everything was completed and the only thing I missed was one ground going to the in dash depth finder.

[RidgeRunner]

Nice work, looks tons better. I will try to post some pictures of the switchplate, and terminal blocks I got to do from scratch for my center console. I like to use some electrolitic grease on all terminal ends to slow down corrosion and solder with heat shrink when the wire is fresh and new.
MJ posted about seized switches from Blue Sea? WTF? I never seen that one. They normally sell some nice quality stuff.

[macojoe]

CB and BS both have seen it its true!! I bought from them as they were to be the best!!

[phatdaddy]

looks good, inaforty, i had to do pretty much the same thing, i also moved the fuse blocks and ground block outside the dash cavity. i relpaced the orignal canvas cover with one that was large enough tocover the new blocks outside on the cabin roof. it dosen't really do anything, justlooks neater.

[Wolf]

Hey Barry how do you like your Boston Whaler?
If you need any help with parts or drawing or what ever you might need let me know. I'm the Customer Relations Coordinator for Boston Whaler..
Doug

[Wolf]

Yes, I can tell exactly when and where it was built..

[Wolf]

Hull 16961 is a Standard Sport date of production 10-08-65 sold to
Harby, Panama City, FL. The standard was tiller steer and yours which is a sport model had the console.
I notice it doesn't have a rub rail we still have the orignal if you think you might want to add one.
I've included the catalog from the 60's that shows your boat..